ABOUT REGENERATES
A practice rooted in living systems thinking and place-based design.
Regenerates bridges the technical depth of regenerative design with the strategic clarity that companies, funders, landowners, and project partners need to make real decisions about land, agricultural origins, and landscapes.
We work where systems meet.
Every place has its own logic. Every supply system has its own constraints. Every project has its own stakeholders and decisions. Our work begins where these systems meet: where business decisions encounter ecological realities, where corporate sourcing strategies encounter producer livelihoods, and where technical design encounters local knowledge.
Regenerates helps reconcile business imperatives with ecological resilience, strategic clarity with collaborative process, and living systems thinking with on-the-ground implementation, so projects can move from ambition to implementation without losing what made them worth doing.
Regeneration is a process, not an end state.
Regeneration is not an end state to certify or a checklist to complete. It is a developmental process through which people and places increase their capacity to evolve, adapt, and contribute over time.
Regeneration also looks different in every context. The same practices that produce regenerative outcomes in one place may not work in another. We do not work from a fixed playbook; we work from what the place can support. Our approach is outcome-based, not practice-based: guided by what actually works in the system we are engaging with, and monitored as conditions evolve.
The work begins by understanding the system as a whole: the place, the people, the relationships, the constraints, the history, the potential, and the decisions that need to be made. Fragmented analysis produces fragile outcomes. Integration across layers — water, ecology, production, infrastructure, social fabric, and economic logic — is what makes resilience possible.
From there, we facilitate a shared process through which stakeholders can see the system more clearly, align around direction, and identify where each can contribute meaningfully. The goal is not only to produce a plan. It is to build the shared understanding and ongoing capacity needed for the work to continue: for stakeholders to learn how to engage with the system as it evolves, and to steward it over time.
A lineage of living systems practice.
Regenerates draws from a long-standing lineage of regenerative practice, shaped by design, facilitation, ecology, and applied work with living systems.
Across the two founders, our training and practice includes permaculture design with Bill Mollison, syntropic agroforestry at Rancho Mastatal, Carol Sanford’s regenerative business development series, The Regenerative Practitioner (TRP) through Regenesis, Art of Hosting facilitation, and years of project work through Terra Genesis International.
A practice shaped across regions, disciplines, and real projects.
Regenerates is co-founded by Chris Kaput and Dennis Posthumus. Together, we combine origin-level strategy, supply system transformation, facilitation, capacity building, and technical land-use design — with particular depth in tropical agroforestry systems, especially coffee. Our work spans Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Mediterranean.
We work as a focused two-person practice, supported by a wider network of regenerative practitioners, technical experts, researchers, and implementation partners we bring in when engagements require additional depth.
Chris Kaput
Based in Panama City after twelve years in the Dominican Republic and two years in Haiti, Chris has spent more than fifteen years living and working across Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular focus on tropical agroforestry systems, coffee, cotton, and smallholder farmer contexts.
His work spans regenerative agriculture, supply chain transformation, origin diagnostics, climate and transition strategy, multi-stakeholder facilitation, and capacity building for farmers, agronomists, and project teams.
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Permaculture design and syntropic agroforestry training at Rancho Mastatal · Carol Sanford regenerative business development · Art of Hosting facilitation · Terra Genesis International
Working languages:
Dutch · English · Spanish
Dennis Posthumus
Based in Berlin after many years in Portugal, Dennis brings deep experience with Mediterranean and European land-use contexts, technical analysis, agroecological design, and implementation logic for farms, estates, and landscapes.
His work connects field observation, spatial analysis, cropping system design, agroforestry, water and land-use logic, training, and implementation planning. Dennis has also worked extensively with Chris on regenerative agriculture and coffee projects across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Permaculture Design Certificate with Bill Mollison · The Regenerative Practitioner (TRP) through Regenesis · Carol Sanford regenerative business development · Terra Genesis International
Working languages:
Dutch · English · German · Portuguese
An interdisciplinary capability set for regenerative projects.
Our work brings together strategy, facilitation, technical design, measurement, compliance, and communication so complex projects can move from ambition to implementation.
Strategy & alignment
Vision and goal setting · Program design · Transition roadmapping · Coalition development
Stakeholder process
Stakeholder engagement · Workshopping and facilitation · Context assessment
Technical design & analysis
GIS · Cropping concept design · Climate risk assessment · Carbon impact assessment · Impact modeling
Measurement, compliance & claims
Regulatory compliance · MRV development · Outcome verification · Impact claims
Communication & learning
Thought leadership · Storytelling · Knowledge translation
Applied with leading companies and partners.
Selected organizations our work has supported directly or through prior engagements.
Explore selected work →Two practice areas, one approach.
Through OriginWorks, we support companies, funders, suppliers, and supply chain partners in understanding and transforming agricultural origins. Through LandWorks, our technical land and landscape design branch, we support landowners, project developers, and landscape initiatives in turning regenerative ambition into practical site concepts, master plans, and implementation pathways.
Both begin the same way: understand the system before designing the intervention.
OriginWorks
Strategic clarity for sourcing, compliance, claims, transition, and investment decisions at agricultural origins.
Explore OriginWorks →LandWorks
Technical assessment, land-use design, master planning, and implementation pathways for sites and landscapes.
Explore LandWorks →Let’s explore how we can work together on regeneration.
Whether you are working with an agricultural origin, a land project, or a wider landscape, the first step is to understand your goals, the decisions ahead, and how regeneration can support both.